Power losses in bent and elongated polymer optical fibers

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 4570-4578

  Chen, Yung Chuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

POLYMER OPTICAL FIBERS (POF); POWER LOSS; SKEW RAYS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 34548557258     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.004570     Document Type: Article

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